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How can Monero defend against a "majority of view keys" attack?
My question is a follow-up on a recent thread on Reddit:
In this talk! a question was asked how many of view keys are needed to
see through the whole blockchain and deanonymize all the transaction.
Riccardo Spagni answered around 80%, which is…
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Alternative Monero implementations
Considering the hardforks planned in Monero, it seems that having several implementations of the daemon is a difficult task as they would need to be kept in sync.
I wondered however:
Have there been projects to produce alternative implementations…
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Where is the Monero blockchain stored on Linux build?
I'm a Linux newbie and I don't know where monerod is storing the blockchain.
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A SHA-1 collision has been found. Does that mean the Monero repositories on Github can be compromised?
Git (and thus Github) relies on the SHA-1 hash function to guarantee that files can't be secretly changed. Now a collision has been found: two different files that produce the same hash. The commercial cost to create one would be around 100 BTC at…
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electrum seed word list for monero != official electrum wordlist (english): why?
even if only the first three characters are significant/considered, the english wordlists differ quite a bit, in terms of population(2048 words vs 1626) as well as content(other language versions probably do too?). Any reason why?
I am comparing…
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Failure when using XMR Stak CPU Miner on Linux
I recently set up XMR-Stak-CPU Miner on my Linux system, and, as listed as a common occurrence in the README (located here), the program failed with the "MEMORY ALLOC FAILED: mmap failed" exit code. I performed the steps required to fix the error as…
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Is there any block size limitation?
In Bitcoins the blocks have a size limit of 1MB.
Is there any hardcoded limit for Monero? If not, how does it affect the cryptocurrency in terms of scalability?
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how do I make monerod play nice with process supervision?
For some reason monerod gets angry if it reads EOF from stdin and decides to exit. I don't know why. Go ahead, try it:
monerod < /dev/null
This is really unfriendly behavior for daemons, because it is incompatible with process supervision…
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How long are unmined transactions kept in the memory pool?
Since the RingCT hard fork, there's quite a backlog of transactions in the memory pool, even a single transaction sitting there for 40 hours already.
Are unmined transactions "returned to sender" after a while? If so, after how long? If not, are…
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Can the size of range proofs be reduced?
Range proofs are currently quite large, roughly 12-30kb. Is it likely that range proofs will become smaller in the future through various optimizations?
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Easy way to see my balance without having wallet synced
just joined and have a question...
I started mining XMR when the new GUI was released and used the address generated to receive payment from pool. Unfortunately the mac I'm using is very old and it is taking forever to sync completely. So my…
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Is the GUI Safe for storing thousands of monero?
How safe is it to store 5,000 monero on the GUI? I know it's beta though others have stated that it is safe to store there.
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MRL RingCT research in the Ledger Journal
I understand that Ledger:
is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal that publishes full-length original research articles on the subjects of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology, as well as any relevant intersections with mathematics, computer…
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How do i delete the wallet cache?
In rare cases the wallet cache needs to be rebuilt. For example when the wallet cache isn't compatible with the current wallet version.
How do i delete the wallet cache and trigger a rebuild?
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What was the problem with ASNL forgery?
For background there is https://nickler.ninja/blog/2016/12/17/a-problem-with-ringct/ and this problem had been fixed before this post was made by changing ASNL to borromean signature. For background on what borromean signature is here is this…
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